[DailyReading] Give diligence to your calling

[Daily Bible Readings - English (en)]

Lesson: Zeal for the Kingdom
Reading: Give diligence to your calling  2013-11-24
Reference:  2 Pet. 1:4-13 
II Peter 1:4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
II Peter 1:5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
II Peter 1:6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
II Peter 1:7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
II Peter 1:8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
II Peter 1:9: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
II Peter 1:10: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
II Peter 1:11: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
II Peter 1:12: Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
II Peter 1:13: Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
(KJV)